Civil Rights: Voices of a Movement

For much of the 20th Century, African Americans in the South were barred from the voting booth, sent to the back of the bus, and walled off from many of the rights they deserved as U.S. citizens. Until well into the 1960s, segregation was legal. Hear the voices from the heart of the Civil Rights revolution describe life before, during and fater Jim Crow, Freedom Summer and Brown vs. the Board of Education.

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SHOW: American RadioWorks | Length: 50:49 | Audio Format: MP3
For much of the 20th century, African Americans endured a legal system in the American South that was calculated to segregate and humiliate them. The system was called Jim Crow.
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SHOW: American RadioWorks | Length: 51:38 | Audio Format: MP3
During the World War II years a series of groundbreaking radio programs tried to mend the deep racial and ethnic divisions that threatened America...
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SHOW: American RadioWorks | Length: 50:49 | Audio Format: MP3
In 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the first African American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. But Marshall had already earned a place in history...
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SHOW: American RadioWorks | Length: 52:50 | Audio Format: MP3
In the summer of 1964, about a thousand young Americans, black and white, came together in Mississippi for a peaceful assault on racism...
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SHOW: American RadioWorks | Length: 53:19 | Audio Format: MP3
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Four decades later, King remains one of the most vivid symbols of hope for racial unity in America...
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